Results of the Auth IE are presented in this Engineering Report document and serve as guidance to both implementers and organizations deploying solutions that involve basic authentication. It is the belief of the Auth IE participants that if such a document is made available to the community more OGC implementing products will natively support authentication.

Technology Insertion Project. The CTI Project, sponsored by the US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), integrated multiple map servers, including nodes at the Corps' Mississippi Valley Division and the New Orleans District Office. Insertion Projects focus on expanding an organization’s interoperability capacity by laying the groundwork for open implementations.

As customers in the geospatial industry prepare to modernize their
systems based on OGC Web Services, they will require proof of products'
conformance to OpenGIS® Specifications in order to achieve
interoperability. Validating conformance to an OpenGIS® Specification
means verifying that a software product has implemented the
specification correctly. Validation involves testing the software
interface for response and behavior outlined in the specification. The
Conformance and Interoperability Test and Evaluation (CITE) Initiative